Wikileaks shows in fighting among liberals and prompts more

The Clinton campaign isn't the only group having a rough time since WikiLeaks published a cache of embarrassing emails hacked from the account of campaign Chairman John Podesta. Several of the messages show Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress, privately trash-talking various liberal causes and activists, prompting outpouring of anger against her on social media.

Among them was Lee Fang, a liberal reporter who previously worked for the center. Fang tweeted an image of a February email in which Tanden called him and another liberal writer, Zaid Jilani, "freaks" apparently because they supported Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt. In afollow-up email, Fang wrote: "I miss the old, progressive ThinkProgress which was unafraid to challenge power & even the Dem Party. Now it's run by unimaginative suckups."

ThinkProgress is the official blog of Center for American Progress Action Fund. Podesta was previously the center's president. Tanden took over after he left it to join the Clinton campaign.

It is not clear from whom WikiLeaks got the collection of Podesta emails, which were presumably illegally obtained.

The emails revealed that Tanden was privately opposed to a $15 minimum wage and counseled the Clinton campaign against supporting it. She referred to people who did support it as the "Red Army." In another email, she said that a demand by David Brock, head of the liberal group Media Matters for America, for Sanders to release his medical records was so counter-productive that he "may actually be a Republican plant." In a message to Podesta shortly before Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, she said, "What is wrong [with] the people of NH?"...

There is more.

There is political gold in some of these leaks. Unfortunately, Trump has the worse case of political ADHD in the history of the world and he is instead of using it to attack liberals, he if fighting with Republicans embarrassed by his raunchy vulgar remarks. At this rate, it almost looks like he is not only trying to lose but to drag down the rest of the party with him.

"It continues. Have seen gunships firing and heard much activity in the last few hours."...
The Iraqi claim is plausible. It is just the kind of thing that could be expected from ISIS forces. ISIS is in a desperate fight and appears willing to pull down all those around them as they lose.

Some injuries were reported and more than a dozen people were arrested after opposing sides clashed at dueling pro- and anti-Trump rallies, Berkeley, Calif., police said.
The liberals engage in projection by calling Trump supporters fascists, when it is in fact, their supporters who are sparking the violence in Califonia. There is a strain of intolerance for other points of view that is enforced by people dressed in black and their faces covered. They physically attack Trump supporters or other conservatives. These people may wear black but the are the Brownshirts of liberal fascism.

Fuel Fix:
OPEC producers took another 153,000 barrels a day off the market in March as part of its bid to drain the world’s oil glut.

In the cartel’s monthly report released Wednesday, independent sources reported the group of oil-producing countries has cut output by 1.1 million barrels a day since December.

Last month, Libya’s output dropped by nearly 9 percent, and production edged lower in the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran, Angola and other countries. Saudi Arabia raised production by 41,000 barrels a day.

That effort has pushed oil prices above $50 a barrel in recent months, breathing life into U.S. oil patches like the Permian Basin. U.S. crude rose 16 cents on Wednesday to $53.56 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, as traders reacted to media reports that Saudi Arabia, the cartel’s de facto leader, wants to see OPEC continue production cuts into the second half of this year.

But even as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries works to slow…